Still wondering what's folk these days?

Subject: RE: Still wondering what's folk these days?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Jun 15 - 02:39 AM

strangely enough I didn't attend this gig advertised as 'Gothic country, industrial folk and heretical gospel'

sandra

Subject: RE: Still wondering what's folk these days?
From: Padre
Date: 03 Jun 15 - 09:11 PM

Of all the things about which I am concerned, 'what is folk these days' ranks WAAAY down the list. Somewhere below how to cook an aardvark.

Subject: RE: Still wondering what's folk these days?
From: Lighter
Date: 03 Jun 15 - 06:08 PM

> She does actually perform some traditional folk songs too

Donahue doesn't mention them. Either he found them uninteresting, or he thought they were secondary to her real "folk" repertoire. Or both.

Subject: RE: Still wondering what's folk these days?
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Jun 15 - 03:23 PM

but does she fit the 1954 definition,and would Jim Carroll like her

Subject: RE: Still wondering what's folk these days?
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 03 Jun 15 - 02:42 PM

She does actually perform some traditional folk songs too y'know

Subject: RE: Still wondering what's folk these days?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 03 Jun 15 - 01:10 PM

Never heard of her.. but listening now to youtube BBC Mark Radcliffe session..

First thing needs mentioning is I absolutely love harmonium drones..

and she sounds pretty good and a potential favourite singer...



But that reviewer John Donahue does appear to be a bit of a pillock
making reference to her feet as though it's some big deal...

It's the 21st century .. we at least want belly buttons these days...😈

Subject: RE: Still wondering what's folk these days?
From: GUEST,Joseph Scott
Date: 03 Jun 15 - 01:10 PM

Fifty-six years ago this song by Bill Weldon was performed at the Newport Folk Festival, so maybe not much has changed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC2NMfsOEK8

Subject: RE: Still wondering what's folk these days?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 03 Jun 15 - 12:57 PM

Puppet of a string is good barefoot. And yes, I'm sad enough to like this song)

Not sure where that gets us with what is folk though.

Subject: RE: Still wondering what's folk these days?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Jun 15 - 12:48 PM

Hard to believe that somebody can reinvigorate folk with songs on the tired old themes of sex, death, unrequited love, and murder.

The harmonium, which has a lot of keys and therefore a lot of possibilities, may add something invigorating.

Does the harmonium have pedals, like a regular organ? If so, she may be playing barefoot simply to feel the pedals better. Good for her.

Subject: RE: Still wondering what's folk these days?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 03 Jun 15 - 12:26 PM

"She often performs barefoot...."

Damn those stinky cheesey foot fetishists..

not content with spamming all the online p0rn cam/chat sites..

now the kinky blighters wanna take over folk music as well....😜

Subject: Still wondering what's folk these days?
From: Lighter
Date: 03 Jun 15 - 12:16 PM

Submitted for your approval:

Music review by John Donahue in The New Yorker, June 8, 2015, p.26:

"Olivia Chaney and her harmonium are reinvigorating English folk music.....

"...She embraces songs about sex, death, unrequited love, and murder....

"...Chaney is bringing the grand tradition of British folk music into the twenty-first century...She often performs barefoot....When she takes her place behind the harmonium ... and, with a steely gaze, starts singing, it's as if a mystical spirit has entered the room. It's chilling when she slowly intones 'Stand by the roadside/ facing the headlights/ wait for the break of dawn,' on her adaptation of 'Blessed Instant,' by the Norwegian jazz singer Sidsel Endresen...."